newborn care

Imaging system to diagnose jaundice in newborn babies introduced in Australia

By Adam Ang 05:19 am November 18, 2021

Engineers from the University of South Australia and Iraq-based Middle Technical University have developed an imaging system to diagnose jaundice in newborn babies. WHAT IT DOES The said tool can detect newborn jaundice within a second, automatically turning on a blue LED phototherapy to treat it and then sending a diagnosis to carers. Treatment is triggered once it detects that the level of a...

Cedars-Sinai enlists FaceTime for moms to see their babies in the NICU

By Neil Versel 09:46 am April 12, 2013

Unmodified iPads simply running Apple's built-in FaceTime app are giving new mothers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles a chance to see their premature or sick babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) even if they are immobile while recovering from delivery or the infants are in isolation. "When mom's recovering, she can't come up to the NICU and see her baby," Yvonne Kidder,...